Members of the public will have the opportunity to learn about and view some of the art in the University’s vast museum collections during the Yale Art Museum’s Open House on Thursday, Sept. 2, 5-8 p.m.Both the Yale University Art Gallery (the oldest...
The resurgence of pertussis (whooping cough) among newborns and adults has spurred a study by Yale School of Medicine and Hospital of Saint Raphael that will gauge whether young mothers and other caregivers will accept the pertussis vaccine if it is...
A Yale team led by Professor of Egyptology John Coleman Darnell has unearthed a lost city — the site of a massive bread-making industry — that flourished more than 3,500 years ago in the Western desert of Egypt.
The discovery of the remains of this mud-...
West Nile virus tricks mosquitoes into producing a particular protein complex that allows it to survive and be transmitted, Yale researchers report in the Sept. 3 issue of the journal Cell.This molecular survival mechanism helps explain how West Nile...
A team led by Yale University researchers has discovered a previously unknown binding site on a protein found on prostate cancer cells that can enhance their efforts to tag the cells for destruction.The new site improves the ability of synthetic molecules...
Yale College welcomed the 1,344 members of the Class of 2014 to campus on Friday, August 27.The freshman class was selected from an applicant pool of 25,869. Of the new students, 56% came from public high schools, while 44% came from independent,...
Designing a robotic hand that can both pick up and manipulate small objects, like pens or coins, and powerfully grasp larger objects, such as hammers and cups, is no easy task. But that’s exactly what Aaron Dollar, assistant professor of mechanical...
A team of astronomers has used a massive galaxy cluster as a cosmic magnifying lens to study the nature of dark energy for the first time. When combined with existing techniques, their results significantly improve current measurements of the mass and...
Yale School of Medicine today announced that it has begun notifying approximately 1,000 individuals whose clinical health information was contained on a laptop computer that was recently stolen. There is no indication that any individual information on...
The stem cell transplant that Mandi Schwartz needs to help her win her battle with cancer will include a breakthrough procedure pioneered by one of her doctors, but first Mandi must undergo more chemotherapy.The stem cell transplant that Mandi Schwartz...